"Yes...who is this?" Molly said. "OH, it's you Serena..."

Serena felt a bit chagrined that Molly didn't recognize her voice immediately...but she was relieved that she did. Had it been that long since she'd called her? Sailor business took a lot of time. And then, having a boyfriend did too--Molly's spent a lot of time with Melvin, just as Serena did with Darien.

"I know we haven't had a chance to do much lately-- and I miss that." She could say that truthfully.. she felt a bit bad that it was business essentially that was leading her into calling. Ah, for when friendship was so easy, and they could spend time singing and pretending to be stars! Well, that was growing up for you.

"I know...I've missed you too...so you want to join Melvin and Me for Prune and Vanilla shakes--they're actually good once you try one!"

Serena grimaced (Yeah, she thought, if you have ove to wash the taste right out!) "Uh, no, what I had in mind was a good old' girls' night out kind of thing --see, my friend Erika, well she got these tickets to the races and Darien wants to go...I thought well, why not let him take Melvin. That way you and I could"

"Oh that's great! The four of us could have dinner first too!" Molly said "I'm so glad. I'll talk to you later after I see if Mel's in. Bye!"

Serena put the phone down softly. The first part was in motion. Hopefully Darien wouldn't kill her for sending him off with Melvin. Something's/people didn't change much...and poor Melvin was still your average stereotypical nerd...She suspected he would one day grow into more...After all, if the Princess D could look great without her glasses, maybe Melvin would too...but right now Molly still had much work before her.

She looked up at Mina who was lazily reading a comic book on her bed. "I hope this works."

"It will. It should." Mina said absentmindedly. "Hey!!! That's not fair, really, they're making me look so weak."

"What are you talking about?"

"This Sailor Moon comic...I wouldn't get blasted that much. I'm much stronger. And I'm not that much of an idiot. I'll get them for using my name for vanity. "

"Taking your name in vain-- but that doesn't apply." Corrected Artemis.

"I wonder how the others are faring? No word yet?" A worried Luna pondered.

"The seas sure are rough aren't they?" Lita asked. She liked the motion, as it exhilarated her.

Weakly Rei agreed. She was okay, but the sensation was not great. She just didn't want to admit it to Lita.

"Give me the calm temple any day" She thought.

Ami, having taken a motion sickness pill, was quietly sailing along with no trouble.

"We're nearing the edge of this. The readings I'm getting are fantastic. We should be on guard."

"Aye Aye Skipper"Lita joked.

Suddenly a huge wave washed over--the intensity of the swells driving with increasing force. And then, they saw it--a huge fin, headed straight for them.

"What is that?" Rei asked, as she closed her eyes to reach for clues--she could feel much negative energy but also much that was simply nature.

Lita frowned. "Well, whatever it is, it better get out of our way or I'll be serving a little fish and chips."

Ami shook her head "Lita, be careful. You're electricity on water may be a little too dangerous."

"Oh! I hadn't thought of that." She said. "Well, there are always those new oak attacks I've developed."

Rei nodded..."It's avoiding us--it's swimming around."

Ami looked out of the cabin " It's like a ghostyard of ships out there---and this life form--it's grown much larger than this species of whale is supposed to get. They're normally peaceful animals...this is strange-" She suddenly screamed her transformation phrase---as she realized the huge fish like creature was creating a whirlwind around the ship===it was going to drown them. "Quick transform!"

"Mars Planet Power"

"Jupiter Planet Power" <>

The two girls reappeared, clad like their friend ready for battle.

"How do we stop it?" Jupiter asked. She was poised to strike but she realized that might not be the best thing.

Maybe if I freeze part of the water?" Mercury said, sending a freezing blast -it wasn't enough to truly freeze all of the water. "Its moving so fast...we need to slow the fish down!"

"Maybe if I hit it!" Jupiter said--sending out a strike of lightening targeted, the dragon snapping and barely missing it's target, it hit and sent a huge shock across the ship it did it. "Uh, sorry." She tried again, this time, shocking the whale out of it's path...the waves sent it around, and then it turned closer in--as it tried to bite into the ship.

"That's using magic force" Mars said She singed it away with a fire ball.

"Let's hide a little--can't we use the fog?" Lita asked...maneuvering the ship away again.

"Sonar. Wouldn't help. The fog would just confuse us a little. Besides- what ever I think is wrong is inside that whale."

"Inside?"

"I'm afraid, we're going to need to get inside that animal..."

"How do we do that!?" Sailor Mars and Jupiter said. Each was poised to attack the animal again.

"If we kill it, we'll end up with a serious problem. If it sinks--well, we'll never reach what's inside of it."

"Well...then we need a harpoon." Lita said. "I don't feel good about killing a whale though."

"I know--how do we get to what's inside of it otherwise?" Mars said. "Wait- what's that over there?"

Suddenly they could see the beast had led them to an island of sorts, small and nestled between the lost ships.

"Let's get it to go aground...if we can confuse it-- it may beach itself." Mercury said.

"What about us? We don't want to destroy the boat!" Lita frowned as she steered out of its way again.

"Right now, we're stuck. We need help. Let's call the reinforcements! WE could really use Venus's chain right now!"

"Why so that thing could pull her in there with it?"Jupiter said "Wait- there's some rope isn't there?"

"Yes."Mars said handing a thick heavy cord to Jupiter

"How good a swimmer are you Mercury?" Jupiter asked. "Think you could dive around that thing? Tie it up?"

Mercury swallowed. "I don't think I could manage that. I have a different idea." She took a breath, and then created a huge wall of ice sloping down around the creature-- an ice slide up to the island. "Let's get it to follow us up the slide"

They turned around again, and this time, the boat's forward motion carried it up the slide onto the island. The whale followed.

"That's no normal whale." Jupiter said exiting the boat with the others onto the island. "It's got legs."

Indeed, the animal had shrunken in size and gathered legs. It was using those to chase after them.

"I feel it's evil!" Mars said. She grabbed a slip of paper--"Evil Spirit Begone!" She cried as she darted close to it and slapped it with the paper. The paper slid right off the slick skin. It raised a foot to kick her--but stumbled as a blast of lightening stopped it.

A huge blast of ice followed a second later, freezing it--"Mars--are you okay?"

"I'm fine. This sea creature is not responsible. We need to get the evil out of it...and for that--I think we need Sailor Moon to heal it."

"I agree. Well, I put that fish on ice--but I don't really want to kill it. Care to create a pool Mars?" Ami said, eyeing the surface of the island... She began to sculpt a huge wall of ice, in a pool, and filled it up. Mars sent blasts of fire to melt the water.

Jupiter picked the frozen creature up by its mutant legs and threw it into the pool. "Good thing I have gloves" She said grinning. "This is one fish I *don't* want to handle"

"I've located the source of disturbances, *inside* the stomach of the whale creature. It must have swallowed something that is producing the strange disturbances." Mercury said into the communicator.

"Want to try a little surgery?" Jupiter said "It's a whale, but I'm sure I could cut it up..."

"NO! I don't want it to die if possible. We need some way of getting the source out, without cutting the animal."

"I agree." Rei said. She was feeling some strange presence. "Something's alive in there."

"Well, we could try to ...no.." Jupiter shook her head. "I can't think of anyway to go down through the mouth."

"Maybe by forming a net, and we can throw it down?" Mars suggested, fashioning the two harpoons and net into a crude sling of sorts.

"We don't even know how big the object is" Jupiter countered as Mercury stated "It's crystalline, 8 feet across 4 feet wide. Something I can't detect may be inside it ..it doesn't seem pure crystal through."

Jupiter dove into the water, pushed the creatures mouth open, and used her body to jack it open. "Mercury, maybe a little ice-prop would help?"

Mercury created two pillars of ice which forced the mouth open.

Jupiter stepped out. "Let' me at it." She said throwing the sling down..."Got it...." No...She said..."She sighed "This is just like that stupid claw game at the arcade. I never win that."

"I can sometimes force things--but I'm more precognitive than telekinetic."

"Too bad I'm not Game Machine Jupiter." Jupiter grinned trying again.

"That's it!" Mercury said. "We need to hunt up that Game Machine Joe! Just like Greg retained his precognitive ability, if somewhat modified, I'm sure Joe still has telekinesis."

"We can't drag him here!" Mars snapped..."Are you crazy!"

"As a rainbow crystal carrier--they absorbed a lot of energy. With ours to boost his power, he should be able to pull whatever it is out--without hurting the animal. None of the scouts has a power that would work like that."

"Venus's chain could..."

"If Sailor Moon has to leave Molly, she can't explain that...we need to get Venus to cover for her. They both can't come."

"I guess you're right." Jupiter said. "Let's get the reinforcements then. "

"How do we find Joe though?" Mercury said beginning to start calculating.

Jupiter blushed.." As it happens, Ken is friends with Joe from school...I just happen to know where they are tonight.." Rei looked at Jupiter's blush "happen to know?"

"Okay, I asked Ken...I'm not stalking him...but a girl needs information so she can "run into" a guy!"

"Let's get on with it then!"Ami said.

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